GRE Word List
SUSTENANCE
means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living
The meaning of the word sustenance is means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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retinue | a group of retainers or attendants |
shun | to avoid deliberately and especially habitually |
simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |
sate | satisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy |
provisional | serving for the time being : temporary |
smirk | to smile in a smug or condescending way |
partial | of or relating to a part rather than the whole : not general or total |
inevitable | incapable of being avoided or evaded |
incoherent | lacking coherence: such as |
recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |